LTom

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by LTom 11mo ago
A quick question: are you looking for feedback on search results in other languages (as in, what I expect vs. what I get), or is it too early for that?
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by LTom 2y ago
Monarchy never really works for long in Tolkien's works either. The history of the kings of Gondor is all strife and crises, and in Tolkien's abandoned sequel already 100 years later “the people of Gondor in times of peace, justic
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by LTom 3y ago
I suppose it fits with the rest of this article being rather disingenuous. Alex Gleason, Spinster and Neenster are part of a controversial group that detractors call "trans-exclusionary radical feminism." For better or for worse (
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by LTom 3y ago
Yes, that was explicitly stated in an interview[1] a while back. Quoting from the specific section: > “Okay, well, WhatsApp — we have this very strong commitment to encryption. So if we’re going to interop, then we’re either going to mak
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by LTom 3y ago
I think they should be able to govern their instance as they wish, but it's odd that they don't understand that putting (for example) criticism of the Chinese communist party under a general anti-racism rule — without explicitly m
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by LTom 4y ago
There is an English version. It pops up when looking up subjects on https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ , but I don't think there's a way to directly browse it (and I find the site in general rather cumbersome to us
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by LTom 4y ago
I studied art history in university, and for some reason, when looking up a certain obscurer topic brought up during a lecture on architecture, the only online source mentioning at the time was the English edition of the Great Soviet Encycl
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by LTom 5y ago
I use GoldenDict on Linux. Unfortunately, the Webster's 1913 dictionary I use with that software (downloaded from a link in Somers' blog post) lacks the markup of this Mac version. And while GoldenDict supports many dictionary fil
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by LTom 5y ago
Splendid, this sounds exactly like what we need in our channel. Is there a specific project page/Github issue/… I can keep an eye on, so that I know when this functionality is deployed?
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by LTom 8y ago
One of the reasons for period tracking is identifying changes to one's menstrual cycle, which may indicate health issues.[1] So even if periods normally were to only last up to 10 days, not allowing to track for a longer period would i
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by LTom 8y ago
Yeah, I usually preview a feed in Firefox before adding it to a proper RSS reader.
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by LTom 9y ago
An ante-anti-library, perhaps?
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by LTom 9y ago
Yeah, there’s: * Allo (text chat) * Duo (video chat) * Android Messages (SMS etc.) (And Google Voice also does SMS iirc) And of course Hangouts, which is able to do all of those currently, but is going to be split up into different business
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by LTom 9y ago
I’m getting really fed up with Google. Yet another time when they nudge me towards using a service, only to retire it a while later. A separate app for SMS again , just when I’m comfortable with centralizing it in Hangouts. And Allo and Han
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by LTom 10y ago
>It’s illegal to share a picture of the Eiffel Tower light display at night. The display is copyrighted — and tourists don’t have the artists’ express permission. Here in Belgium, freedom of panorama was recently introduced. This law was
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by LTom 10y ago
No, I’m not American. :-p
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by LTom 10y ago
Likewise, though I was taught about Macaroni in a course on fashion history before I first even heard the Yankee Doodle song.